"This was a time of stunned growth. The plague also helped theemergence of English as the national language of England,France, and Italy."

"Renaissance merchants were beautiful and almost lifelike. Theyenriched themselves by planting wool and selling it forclothing. They increased these profets by paying interest topeople who borrowed money from them. This produced even moregrits for the mills of change."

"Hitler, who had become depressed for some reason, crawled underBerlin. Here he had his wife Evita put to sleep, and then shothimself in the bonker."

"The Allies landed near Italy's toe and gradually advanced upher leg, where they hoped to find Musalini."

"Stalin, Rosevelt, Churchill, and Truman were known as the 'bigthree'."

"Unfortunately the Second World War was not concluded until1957. A whole generation had been wiped out in two world wars,and their forlorne families were left to pick up the peaces."

"The Civil Rights movement in the USA turned around the cornerwith Martin Luther Junior's famous 'If I Had a Hammer' speech."

"The East and West made mends with each other. The Berlin Mallwas removed. Many Eastern Europeans experienced a new form ofarousal at this time."

"It is now the age of now. This concept grinds our critical,seething minds to a halt."